Dow prepares to restart German Schkopau site after outage

16 June 2010 18:56[Source: ICIS news]

TORONTO (ICIS news)--Dow Chemicalis preparing to restart plants at its petrochemicals complex in ?xml:namespace>Schkopau, Germany, following an electricity disruption that caused a complete production outage, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

The electricity disruption late Tuesday caused a fire at Dow's synthetic rubber plant at Schkopau and forced the company to take all its plants there offline, a spokesman told ICIS news. He was confirming a German media report.

The site's electricity had been restored and the fire had been quickly extinguished, he said.